Search results for ""Author Sanora Babb""
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University of Oklahoma Press Whose Names Are Unknown A Novel
Book SynopsisSanora Babb's long-hidden novel Whose Names Are Unknown tells an intimate story of the High Plains farmers who fled drought dust storms during the Great Depression. Written with empathy for the farmers' plight, this powerful narrative is based on the author's firsthand experience.Trade ReviewThe publication of Whose Names Are Unknown rights a decades-old literary wrong."" - The Salt Lake TribuneBabb puts a human face on the ""Okies"" and others who faced economic and social disaster, yet managed to retain their humanness, faith, and inner dignity. Is it better that Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath? I think so, but you be the judge"" - Mike Nobles, Tulsa World""As vibrant and timely today as when it was begun in the migrant camps of California, Sanora Babb's first novel depicts the pride, suffering, and resilience of uprooted Anglo farmers who confront economic and ecological disaster. Resisting forces within society that devalue and marginalize them, the declassed refugees work together to form enduring communities."" - Douglas Wixson, author of Worker-Writer in America: Jack Conroy and the Tradition of Midwestern Literary Radicalism, 1898-1869""Sanora Babb's Whose Names Are Unknown has enjoyed an underground reputation for many years among those scholars who have known of its existence. Babb is a skillful artist who identified wholeheartedly with the ordeal of the dispossessed during the 1930s. The recovery of her novel is a miraculous gift that will play an important part in future reconsiderations of mid-century U.S. literature."" - Alan M. Wald, author of Exiles from a Future Time: The Forging of the Mid-Twentieth-Century Literary Left
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Muse Ink Press An Owl on Every Post
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Muse Ink Press The Lost Traveler
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University of Texas Press On the Dirty Plate Trail
Book SynopsisA vivid, firsthand account of the migrations, immigrant camps, and labor organizing of displaced Midwestern farmers during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, illustrated with striking photographs.Table of Contents "Migrant Farmer," by Dorothy Babb Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: The Babb Sisters 1. The Dirty Plate Trail 2. Field Notes Oklahoma Panhandle, 1934 "Triple A, Dusted Out" Note on the government's AAA program to reduce hog production and corn acreage The Dispossessed Labor Conditions Farmer-Industrialist Labor Protest Organization of labor Government Camps Fascist characteristics of the campaign against the migratory workers in California Visalia 2/24/38 Labor Contractor Kinds of camps in California Birthrate In answer to the frequent threat... In the fields, 1938 Large Landowners Rag Town Refugee Needs A day in the camps San Joaquin Valley, California, 1938 Thirty-seven varieties of religon... Striking Workers, Angry Growers March, 1938 October 29, 1938 Two stories of labor spies Notes for a Novel 3. Reportage Migratory Farm Workers in California (1938) There Ain't No Food (1938) Farmers without Farms (New Masses, 21 June 1938) We Sure Struck It Tuff: The Storm Dealing in Major Catastrophes (New Masses, 23 May 1939) Letter to Dorothy Babb (May 1938) 4. Dust Bowl Tales The Dark Earth (The Magazine, Nov.-Dec. 1934) Morning in Imperial Valley (Kansas Magazine, 1941) Whose Names Are Unknown 5. The Dust Bowl as Site of Memory 6. Epilogue: Letters from the Fields Notes Bibliography Index
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